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Poster: | opticaltoys | Date: | Mar 16, 2016 12:34pm |
Forum: | general | Subject: | cannot view books |
I emailed Archive about it but the fellow seemed less than interested to help, basically telling me to upgrade the computer. But here's the thing. I discovered, and the Archive guy corroborated, that the book reader on NYPL's digital collections site works on this computer just fine. Also, today I did find some books on archive.org that would view. But they seem to be a special subset. They are on one of the site's own introduction pages about their collection. Any book on this page I can view. https://archive.org/details/BookReader
I presented this latest information to the fellow at Archive, but apparently you're only allowed to ask them one or two questions. He doesn't respond. I get the feeling he doesn't care either. Archive.org has been a godsend to my work, this glitch really messes me up. Any help or ideas, short of telling me to just download everything!, woukd be greatly appreciated.
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Poster: | pegzmasta | Date: | Mar 16, 2016 1:47pm |
Forum: | general | Subject: | Re: cannot view books |
- Lucifox (I am not listing EPUBReader, because it's custom license is Nonfree)
- PDF.js (if you are using Windows XP, then I suspect that you're version of Firefox may be old; thus, you may not have PDF.js which comes with the latest version by default)
Ps: To further showcase any visual errors with the white controls for BookReader, attach a screenshot of it to this thread. I welcome your feedback, Michael Pagan E-Mail: mailto:michael.pagan@member.fsf.org
This post was modified by pegzmasta on 2016-03-16 20:47:02
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Poster: | opticaltoys | Date: | Mar 16, 2016 4:19pm |
Forum: | general | Subject: | Re: cannot view books |
Let me be as clear as I can. There were only 3 of the 4 books appearing on:
https://archive.org/details/BookReader
That I could see. The bird book, the octopus book (very cook pictures btw!) and the book on color. The one "Abroad" seems to go to a page that is down.
That's it. I have tried random and numerous samples that I have bookmarked. None have showed up. Perhaps every single one, by coincedance has this feature that you mention (which I don't understand!) but it's kind of hard to believe it's true. Right now I will try another 5 books at random.
well, well well, the very first one worked.
http://archive.org/stream/jackdawofrheims00ingo#page/n3/mode/2up
ok this is interesting. here's what I have for a bookmark for this other book:
http://www.archive.org/stream/fleursdaprsnatur00guil#page/n35/mode/thumb
but then I click on the title in the upper left, which takes me to the catalog page, and the smaller view of the book. nothing. all black.
BUT that Jackdaw book does work back on the catalog page.
This is all so strange. I was prepared to upload image after image of blank for you. But at least now it might give someone something that will help explain this, and hopefully can help me make it work.
Just for another example, here is a book that I have bookmarked straight to the catalog front page.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924021800242
And I get the black rectangle. Nothing. See file #3.
I'm happy to give more examples if you want.
Attachment: interpreters-book.jpg
Attachment: jackdaw-book.jpg
Attachment: fleurs-book.jpg
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Poster: | pegzmasta | Date: | Mar 16, 2016 7:01pm |
Forum: | general | Subject: | Re: cannot view books |
- Jackdaw– Display in terms of printing is Portrait-based, and this E-Book maintains 18 files (one more compared to the other; the bw.pdf file)
- Fleurs– Display in terms of printing is Landscape-based, and this E-Book maintains 17 files
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Poster: | opticaltoys | Date: | Mar 18, 2016 6:47am |
Forum: | general | Subject: | Re: cannot view books |
I hadn't tried any of this on another browser. This morning I downloaded a slightly earlier version of Opera that can run on XP, 28.0.
I can now see any book. It seems to be a little slow, but doesn't matter at this point.
So, unless you want to keep looking into it for your own curiousity, I'm happy enough to just have Opera around to do the book viewing that I need.
Thanks for your help.